The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.